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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

slaps castle

You can fit so many cats in this baby

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you realize how much 6000 cats would cost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's true if you make them very horny and bar them access to condoms you'll do fine buying 20 cats

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is exactly how I'm tryna be (I live alone in my house with my dog and my $0.003M fortune)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

You filthy millionaire. Even your millions are filth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at Mr big man over here with triple digits in the bank

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's why they call me Dollar Bill. Because I have one.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People make fun of Enya's music but it's really well produced and exactly what she likes to make. What a great life, making art you love, really well, never touring, and living with your cats in a castle

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never heard someone make fun of her, i wouldn t even know why, her music is fire!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I find her music extremely boring. But I do know people that are gaga over her music. You can't choose what you like!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly - what I'm trying to say is that if I was dying and I decided that even though I'd never particularly been into, say, Enya before but that now I really, really was into Enya and that in fact, I thought Enya was great and that Enya died for our sins and I wanted an Enya themed funeral with pictures of Enya and lots and lots of mentions of Enya, then I think it would be a bit bloody rich for my sister to ban all mention of Enya from my funeral. Yeah?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This was my first thought, haha.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*and however many servants it takes to clean and stock a castle. No way she does that on her own, or she'd never stop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How much of a mess do you make as one person? It's not a hotel or catering to anyone it's just a home.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One person? Not much. One person and many many cats? Probably a lot.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The dusting alone would be a full-time job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One person in under 1k space is very different than one person in a friggin castel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The cats piss and shit everywhere, even inside the suit of arms

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

make it a VR game and you're equipped with a laser pointer and catnip bombs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Catmophobia VR is gonna be a viral sensation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swap the castle for a desert commune and the money for orchards and you got a deal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you want to live in a desert?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I suppose it's just where I currently live and I love it here. Shout out to Albuquerque lemmings!

Edit: Besides lots of sun for the orchard!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There might be some Rust lemmings in town in September for RustCont.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whenever I think of Enya I think of this scene from LA Story - https://youtu.be/fHnZcx9k4Yg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is it not a foster castle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

...for cats

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can you really be happy living alone in a castle knowing people out there can't afford to pay rent?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Get over yourself man, just let people be happy. It's okay to have nice things, you don't have to feel guilty about it unless you did something wrong to get it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well some would argue that accumulating this much wealth is the wrongdoing in this story.

With her wealth she easily belongs to the top 0.1 % wealthiest people in the us. I think this amount of wealth surpassed the "It's okay to have nice things" phase and quickly got to the "You should take some responsibility with your inexplicable wealth!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She can afford to live in a castle, and she wants to live in a castle. There's no need to say she has to feel guilty because other people can't live in a castle. Unless you're the unluckiest person alive, there's always going to be people who aren't as fortunate than you. In her case it's easy to point a finger because it's a castle, but honestly where's the cutoff? Should she feel guilty if she had instead chosen to live in a less expensive but still large and nice house? What about if she lived in a modest one? She still has a house and those other people still don't. Should she feel guilty because she can afford fine dining while many people can't afford to eat? What if she chose to eat only fast food? There's still other people that can't afford to eat regardless of the quality of food she chooses.

I'm not going to pretend I know anything about how she uses her money outside of what's presented in this meme. She absolutely has the kind of wealth where it would be morally responsible of her to use some of it to help others less fortunate. Maybe she does that already, maybe not. I don't know.

If she doesn't then yeah, maybe there would be a reason for her to feel guilty; but even then I wouldn't say she for sure should. But for the sake of argument let's say she does regularly contribute to charities. Should she still feel guilty about living in a castle? She's already contributing, but she could contribute more if she didn't live in a castle. But that begs the question, how much should she have to contribute? If she still has enough money left over to live in luxury should she feel guilty? I'd argue not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As an aside, yes, she has contributed frequently to charities. She just doesn't particularly flaunt her contributions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey thanks for engaging in this discussion!

I think you have a point asking "Where to draw the line?" Obviously I don't have a simple answer to this question because it would just be an arbitrary line to draw. Also this matter can't be discussed with Enyas wealth in mind alone but with wealth in general.

I think to answer this question it would be necessary to know who (as in "the richest 0.x % ) would have to abandon how much of their wealth to reach a certain goal for the poorest x % and as long as we can agree that the benefit outweighs the cost (maybe even in a significant manner to "allow" a certain amount of inequality) it is save to draw the line there.

I'm speculating now, but maybe we would come to the conclusion that it would only take a little amount of wealth of the richest few people to lift the poorest of the poorest out of severe hunger. I think we could agree that this would be very reasonable because the benefit would greatly outweigh the cost. Maybe even providing basic housing to all people who need it would cost only a neglectable number of people some of their huge wealth. This could also be a possible line then.

So as you see I'd try to draw a line using some utilitarianistic criteria.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I definitely could, and you know damn well the people who can't afford rent would do the same if they could

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's plenty of artists who care about their art more than money and that they don't sell their art to majors or turn into businessmen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered that her living in a castle is part of the art? I couldn't appreciate her music nearly as much without knowing that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The art of being a peasant and embracing your majesty living in a castle. Sorry dude i didn't realize we haven't move past the middle ages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who are we to say what is and isn't art?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Human beings who understand that if someone lives in a castle and another in a tent, that's not art it's a scam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Life is a scam, my child. Art imitates life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right, that place could probably host a double digit number of families.

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